Reflective Essay On Campus Life

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Campus life can be exciting and challenging for most people who start to live on campus for the first time, especially when one has to face the collisions of different cultures and beliefs. I have to go through this as well. It was in my freshman year in a university in China when I started to live on campus which was far away from home. Even though I had prepared myself to face new challenges and to adapt to the new environment, I still had to cope with some difficulties in relationships in order to get on well with the others, especially when people who didn’t understand my faith wanted to disprove it, because I have the Christian faith. After experiencing life-changing events and seeing my mother’s testimony, I became a Christian when I was in High school. What’s more, this faith did not only make me a new person but also let me grow up by carrying me through some hardships when I started the life in the university. It was …show more content…

It was in a leisure time of the weekend when one of my roommate and I were talking with each other and thinking of things from our past. When I shared the stories with her about some of my life experiences which might have sort of correlation with my faith, she started to react differently. Then, the relaxing weekend afternoon time was suddenly permeated with a tense atmosphere. Following a few seconds of silence, she told me about a movie she watched recently in which it described a bad character whose position was a priest and asked me with a tone of blame, “Can you explain this? You said it is good for you, why did this thing happen? The Christian faith is not right. See? Go and see what kind of people are they.” Not knowing what she was referring to, I was embarrassed and confused, thus at that moment words failed

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